http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246296531833&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull… “Next to us were 10 young men speaking and singing in Hebrew and playing techno music. They were drinking. My friend and I were swimming in the water, when we looked up and saw that a bunch of guys had approached us. One of them started yelling in Hebrew, saying my friend looked at his girlfriend,” Isaac said. “He head-butted my friend in the face, and my friend started to bleed.” …

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By the time we truly aspire for two-state solution, it may be too late.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3739891,00.html… Yet Bibi will again declare: Only two states. He will then recall the many tricks and shticks and lies that we perfected over a period of 100 years, as masters of survival. How to say “yes” but not do it. How to remove a roadblock and set up two instead. How to thwart any attempt for two states and live as if we are alone, with four million transparent Palestinians, in a state we established from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River with the help of the various settlers.

What are we going to do with all this accumulation of slyness premised on not trusting anyone and living without security among watch towers and barbed wire, interrogation cells and walls of separation? And now all of a sudden we need to accept one state? …

… Peled said that shifting military acquisition to America’s competition would make Israel less dependent on the US. For instance, he suggested buying planes from the France-based Airbus firm instead of the American Boeing. …

JERUSALEM (CNN) — The Israeli navy took control of a boat that violated an Israeli blockade and crossed into Gazan waters Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces said, while a Gaza group said the ship was carrying humanitarian aid, a former U.S. congresswoman and a Nobel laureate.

The boat’s crew included former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney …

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… When it comes to Israel, the American government is a puppet state. It does what it is told.

Macho Americans might stand tall, but not when Israel snaps its fingers.

Israel, of course, will get away with a mere act of piracy. After all, Israel has been getting away with its war crimes and violations of international law for 60 years. If the UN tries to do anything, the US will veto it, as the US has done for decades. …

(IsraelNN.com) The Finance Ministry announced today that the United States re-approved its Israel loan guarantees program launched in 2002 to help the country deal with a crippling recession caused by a global downturn and a wave of Palestinian Authority suicide bombings. At the time, the U.S. provided a package of $9 billion in loan guarantees to enable Israel to sell bonds internationally. The guarantees have helped Israel earn upgrades by credit rating agencies.

Israel still has $3.8 billion left to use by 2011 after already issuing $4.1 billion in U.S. backed bonds and following a $1.1 billion deduction penalty for Israeli settlement building and concerns over the anti-terrorism separation fence. Israel would only be able to use up to $3.2 billion in 2009 but another $333.3 million will be released in 2010 and another $333.3 million in 2011 if Israel sticks to its fiscal targets.

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(Israel’s) Housing Minister: “Spread of Arab population must be stopped.”

Housing Minister Ariel Atias on Thursday warned against the spread of Arab population into various parts of Israel, saying that preventing this phenomenon was no less than a national responsibility.

“I see [it] as a national duty to prevent the spread of a population that, to say the least, does not love the state of Israel,” Atias told a conference of the Israel Bar Association, which focused on a reforming Israel’s Land Administration. ….

With Iran’s hard-line mullahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unmistakably back in control, Israel’s decision of whether to use military force against Tehran’s nuclear weapons program is more urgent than ever. …

A new Citigroup scandal is engulfing Robert Rubin and his former disciple Chuck Prince for their roles in an alleged Ponzi-style scheme that’s now choking world banking.

Director Rubin and ousted CEO Prince – and their lieutenants over the past five years – are named in a federal lawsuit for an alleged complex cover-up of toxic securities that spread across the globe, wiping out trillions of dollars in their destructive paths. …